Adam Cook

29, extremely politically correct. In that my political opinions are always correct.

[Adam Cook @Adsc123]

@belladonnafeli Just posting this here. Probably the best takedown I've seen on the completely useless term low fantasy: https://t.co/eVOrskbcAU

[Adam Cook @Adsc123]

@JR_Carnegie___ @zanyfen It very much isn't. We're not talking about Headley's translation of Beowulf here. She makes a few controversial translation choices but she is able to give a long impassioned defence for all of them and that is a minority of what her translation is attempting to do.

[Adam Cook @Adsc123]

@thhouseofblack Ultimately, the narrator being dismissive of Penelope's passivity is meant to be a comment on how Penelope is anything but passive.

[Adam Cook @Adsc123]

@thhouseofblack I loved Hera as narrator and ultimately found the conceit of Hera only being interested in Clytemnestra and then becoming slowly enamoured and sympathetic to Penelope's plight really interesting.

[Oscar 🌐🇬🇧 @Tweets_of_Oscar]

Jesus Christ what a diagnosis

[Adam Cook @Adsc123]

@ciaocupid This version of Carmilla is on my TBR. How are you finding the metafictional aspect of this version? I know some people really didn't like Machado's fictionalised introduction but the concept, to me, feels like an interesting attempt at queer reclamation.

[Paul Holden @pauleholden]

Your reminder today, as no one will report it, that the leading children's protection charity in the UK, NSPCC, opposes a blanket ban on social media, along with many other children's safety groups.

This is what they've said:

"But for countless children, especially those who feel shut out or unheard offline, social media isn’t a luxury. It’s a lifeline – a source of community, identity, and vital support.

“A blanket ban would take those spaces away overnight and risks driving teenagers into darker, unregulated corners of the internet. Everyone involved in this debate will have the best interests of children at heart, but children’s fundamental right to participate safely in the digital world, to access information, to connect with peers, and to have their voices heard must be protected. They should not be stripped of those rights because tech companies have repeatedly failed to build platforms that protect them."

[Adam Cook @Adsc123]

How the Court of Appeal imagines the Suffragette movement went:

Suffragettes: We're going to bomb Lloyd George's house. Here are the plans for the action and the time we intend to commit it.

Lloyd George: Well, thank you very much for the notice. I'll leave the door unlocked

[Harriet Williamson @harriepw]

The Court of Appeal's ruling says "on a fair analysis, Palestine Action has little or nothing in common with the suffragettes". Why? The suffragettes operated "transparently", while PA tried to "avoid the detection and prosecution of those using violence to destroy the property of third parties"

[Adam Cook @Adsc123]

@Steph36Seaton I honestly don't really believe these judges are so unaware of the women's suffrage movement that they don't realise that it was a vastly more violent movement than Palestine Action. They just can't be honest with what this judgement really is about.

[Adam Cook @Adsc123]

Draconian. Overturning the correct ruling. Baroness Carr said it's not reasonable to compare Palestine Action to the Suffragettes. She needs to pick up a history book before continuing her career as a judge. Her and the other four court of appeal judges are traitors of democracy.

[BBC Breaking News @BBCBreaking]

UK government's ban on Palestine Action is lawful, Court of Appeal says, overturning earlier ruling https://t.co/UkSwsbHN4m

[Adam Cook @Adsc123]

@Steph36Seaton 100% agree. Of course, what Carr really means is that she agrees politically with the goals of the suffragettes and not of Palestine Action. But supporting protest only when the government in power agrees with the protest is the same as outlawing it.

[maddy catgirlprostate @catgirlprostate]

Blocking YouTube but not Discord or Roblox betrays that this has nothing to do with protecting children

[Adam Cook @Adsc123]

@jambo__fett This law will undoubtedly make kids less safe, not more safe.

[Adam Cook @Adsc123]

@jambo__fett Other than the very legitimate argument you dismiss outright the other argument is that kids like to flout rules. Laws like this will encourage teens to find way to bypass government firewalls and use micro social media sites with no presence in the U.K. and no safeguarding.

[John Urquhart 𓅿 @TheDryhtscipe]

pictured: peaceful Suffragette civil disobedience

[Adam Cook @Adsc123]

I would say we need Nepalese style Gen Z protests to combat this draconian law but protests are now illegal in the U.K.

[BBC Breaking News @BBCBreaking]

Social media will be banned for all children under 16, UK PM Keir Starmer announces

Follow live: https://t.co/HlGpG4Ip8Y

[John Duncan @Johntheduncan]

Jesus christ what an absolute shit show. Our judiciary is not only deeply reactionary and authoritarian but also just stupid. In no conceivable sense were the Suffragettes more peaceful than PA

[Willibee 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @Willibee64]

We have reached a position here that the only logical inference anyone can take from this, is that there's no point to nonviolence.
They have our justice system and government making out that they are more violent than a group that literally bombed the chancellors house.